By Anna Rose Garvey Gael Linn was established in 1953 to promote and revitalise Irish language and culture through a variety of means, which would eventually include music, film and educational initiatives. A most successful and accessible early venture was the establishment in 1956 of the Amharc Éireann newsreel, the first regular indigenous cinema newsreel … Read more
By Sarah Arnold and Kasandra O’Connell Film-maker Flora Kerrigan, born in Cork in 1940, attended Crawford Art College before becoming an active member of the Cork Cine Club in the late 1950s and 1960s. Over eight years, she crafted remarkable animation and live-action shorts on 8mm film, earning international accolades and an airing on RTÉ. … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey This year saw the launch of Ballymun Community Films on the IFI Archive Player, the culmination of a five-year project between Ballymun Communications and the IFI Irish Film Archive, funded by Coimisiún na Meán. Over 1,000 hours were digitised and catalogued in the IFI Irish Film Archive. A showcase of more … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue we explore three films on the IFI Archive Player that celebrate Irish artists. The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, previously the Department of External Affairs, was one of the many state bodies to commission films to be produced on its behalf. The National Film Institute, now … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue we take a closer look at four films that focus on acts of protest. The first example is the film Lord Mayor of Cork Dead (1920) from the Irish Independence Film Collection, a British Pathé newsreel documenting the funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney through London and his final … Read more